Professor Heather Cox Richardson

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON is professor of history at Boston College and the author of a number of books about American politics, including To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party and most recently How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America . She writes widely for popular publications and is a national commentator on American political history and the Republican Party. Her work has appeared in the Guardian , the Washington...See more

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON is professor of history at Boston College and the author of a number of books about American politics, including To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party and most recently How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America . She writes widely for popular publications and is a national commentator on American political history and the Republican Party. Her work has appeared in the Guardian , the Washington Post , the New York Times , the Chicago Tribune , and Quartz , among other publications, and she is the author of "Letters from an American," an online chronicle of the U.S. government. See less